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An art-to-art connect between Chennai and Toronto
When Ashwathi Mohan moved from Chennai to Toronto in 2019, the visual arts graduate did not see herself as a virtual bridge across two cultures and artscapes. But three year later, the Stella Maris alumna has brought together her experience as an artist and curator at an art gallery to set up...
Legacy of delays hampers biomining, reclamation of waste dumps
The contemporary focal debate around the issues of urban development and protection of the environment has been given close attention by most stakeholders. There are several challenges in the area of waste management, especially what is called legacy waste, or waste accumulated at dumpyards...
Siddha veteran weighs in on Ayush doctors practising allopathy
Dr. Sivaraman, a Siddha practitioner, is a regular participant in the public discussions on Siddha medicine, and known for his reasoned position on issues. He spoke to inmathi.com on the recent Madras High Court judgement permitting AYUSH doctors to prescribe allopathic medicines. This is an...
Moto vlogger Girish Shet pulls off gruelling K2K ride on e-scooter
Among the biking community, the ‘K2K ride’ is considered one of the most challenging. While this route is usually taken by bikers riding high-powered motorcycles, one moto vlogger decided to step it up a notch. Girish Shet, who runs a Youtube channel ‘Weekend On Wheels’, took up the challenge...
Day 6: Gukesh, full of tricks, traps Sargissian Gabriel
Georgia surrenders to India A team. With Armenia, the youngsters team recorded their first loss of the Olympiad. In the open, India A team managed to draw with Uzbekistan. Pentala Harikrishna beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who is the reigning world rapid chess champion. It happened to be...
Vayalur to Okinawa — with some help from scientists!
It has been a long journey from the government school in Vayalur, near Kalpakkam, to the Okinawa institute of Science and Technology in Japan for R. Govindarajan. Helping the determined and hard-working young boy, whose parents were daily wage labourers, dream and span the unthinkable distance...
Explainer: What is property attachment?
What is property attachment? Property attachment is often in the news with reports that the property of politician being investigated has been attached. Recently the Supreme Court gave the enforcement directorate powers to attach the property of the people it is investigating. In law,...
Olympiad Day 5 fleshes out first major challenger to India
After a testing Round 5 of Chess Olympiad 2022 yesterday, Indian teams must be aware of their main contenders in this Olympiad. As Georgia defeated one more Indian women’s team yesterday at 3 - 1, with Soumya and Divya losing and Vantika and Padmini drawing their games, the challenge is now...
Decoding the many layers of meaning in temples
There are a number of videos and blogs on temples. Unfortunately, most of the documentation gets stuck at the academic or spiritual level. To find a solution to this, Chennai-based conservation architect Madhusudhanan Kalaichelvan has launched a series called “Temple Run 2.0” on August 1 by...
How proposed Area Sabha fails on empowerment, transparencyThe Eighth Column
The Tamil Nadu Rules on Ward Committees and Area Sabha, to be set up to empower citizens under the Municipal Corporation Acts for Chennai and other cities, fall severely short on transparency and democratisation norms, reinforcing the criticism that State governments are unwilling to give real...
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